Back in the Game Boy-era Nintendo released the Game Boy Camera. This plastic shooter would go into your Game Boy’s cartridge slot and let you take tiny black-and-white photos that were low-res even by ’90s standards. Two decades later someone decided to upgrade a Game Boy Camera by attaching an obscenely large telephoto lens. And the …
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5 June
iOS 12 Face ID supports second face via new ‘appearance’ option, report says
Enlarge Image 9to5mac Add the ability to recognize a second person with Face ID authentication to the list of new features in iOS 12 that weren’t announced in the WWDC 2018 keynote on Monday. That’s according to a report by 9to5mac, which found the option to “set up alternate appearance” in a beta of the new operating system software for …
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5 June
Can iOS 12 curb your addiction to your iPhone? (The 3:59, Ep. 408)
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. On this podcast, we talk about: How Apple’s WWDC focused on polish over jaw-dropping announcements. Apple helping you kick your iPhone addiction. Apple saying it won’t merge MacOS and iOS, but bringing iOS apps to Macs anyway. And… memojis. The 3:59 gives you …
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5 June
AMD’s new 32
AMD’s having a good year, and it knows it. After having fallen far behind rival Intel in the chip race, the underdog finally found some success earlier this year with a 2.1 percent growth in 2017. While the number might not seem like much, it’s a huge gain for the company considering how dominant Intel is. That’s thanks to its …
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5 June
Forget WWDC. Asus showed us the sexiest tech of tomorrow
Apple may be the world’s biggest tech company, but it had only the second most exciting tech event on Monday. While the iPhone maker focused on sensible-but-not-sexy updates to its iOS software, Asus played its wildest cards. Chalk the excitement up to three new announcements: the VivoWatch BP, the ZenBook Pro and — oh, that’s right — a freaking two-screen …
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5 June
Intel’s AI rock band is definitely going to win the talent night, you guys
Intel has finally crossed the last threshold of artificial intelligence — re-creating the adorably grungy and slightly out-of-sync sounds of your high school rock band. The chipmaker pulled out all the stops at its Computex keynote in Taipei on Tuesday, with its senior vice president and GM of client computing, Gregory Bryant, unveiling brand-new eighth-gen Intel Core chips, showing off …
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5 June
TextNow introduces an unlimited
Good day, cheeps! A few housekeeping notes before we dive in… First, CNET has added a new button to my toolset, one designed to make the reading experience easier. So, for example, I might tell you that GOG has the X-Com-style strategy game Xenonauts (Win/Mac/Linux) free for a limited time. (Steam sells it for $25.) You can click that link, …
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5 June
Apple TV 4K gets Dolby Atmos sound: Three reasons it matters
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The Apple TV 4K and iTunes are getting support for Dolby Atmos. Should you care? If you’re an AV enthusiast with an Apple TV 4K, or the desire to get one eventually, the answer is a solid “maybe.” But if you’re not, perhaps you’re …
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5 June
WWDC 2018: 4 times Apple threw shade at Android and Facebook
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple may be one of the biggest tech companies in the world, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t too big to throw some grade-A shade. Just like last week’s celebrity saga of Drake vs. Pusha T and Kanye West, but less interesting and …
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5 June
JBL Go Bluetooth speaker is on sale for $20
Earlier this month I posted a review of the Go 2, JBL’s update to its pocket-sized Bluetooth speaker. Now that it’s available, the company is discounting the original Go to $20, which isn’t a bad deal for a tiny speaker that doesn’t sound terrible. The Go 2 does sound a little bit better, has a slightly improved design and is …
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